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Housework Quotes

Erma Bombeck quote: "Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage."
Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage. Erma Bombeck
Phyllis Diller quote: "Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance?"
Housework won't kill you, but then again, why take the chance? Phyllis Diller
Erma Bombeck quote: "Housework can kill you if done right."
Housework can kill you if done right. Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck quote: "Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with..."
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. Erma Bombeck
Evan Esar quote: "Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she..."
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. Evan Esar
Phyllis Diller quote: "Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?"
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? Phyllis Diller
Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Ann Oakley quote: "Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human..."
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. Ann Oakley
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. Fawn M. Brodie
Erma Bombeck quote: "Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. Erma Bombeck
Terry Prachett quote: "Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the..."
Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people. Terry Prachett
I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened. Nancy Mitford
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. Simone de Beauvoir
I won't even mention the swift, transitory reward of lemon spray wax. Danielle Westerman and I have discussed the matter of housework. Not surprisingly, she, always looking a little drisoire, believes that women have been enslaved by their possessions. Acquiring and then tending--these eat up a woman's creativity, anyone's creativity. But I've been watching the ways she arranges articles on a shelf, and how carefully she sets a table, even with it is just me coming into Toronto to have lunch... Carol Shields
True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a place on the job market, a place her mate could not get or which his pride would not let him accept. And she had nothing to fall back on: not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything. And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may very well have invented herself. Toni Morrison

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